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VILLEGAS, SEAN
National Policy on
Urban Sewerage and
Sanitation of 1994
NEDA Board Resolution No. 5, Series 0f 1994
Giving high priority to
improved urban sanitation and
sewerage.
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Provision of improved On-site sanitation faciliti All new subdivisions/h
sewerage/sanitation es for all urban househo ousing developments
services in urban area lds/establishments readi shall provide simplified
s shall be considered ly adaptable to further s
ewerage systems shall
or conventional sewer
a high priority. age system/sanitation
be required.
facilities.
National Policy
NEDA Board Resolution No. 5, Series 0f 1994
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Conventional or low-co Treatment of industrial a Provision of services s
st sewerage for central s well as collected city/ hall be based on cons
business districts and f municipality waste wate umer demand and willi
or potentially high inco rs to established standa
rds set forth by the DEN
ngness to pay.
me residential areas w
R prior to disposal into t
here economically and he drainage system shal
financially viable shall l be required.
be provided.
National Strategy
NEDA Board Resolution No. 5, Series 0f 1994
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A sanitation/sewerage p External sources of assi LGUs shall primarily be the im
rogram and a Central Sa plementers of the sanitation/se
stance shall be explored werage programs with the nati
nitation/Sewerage Progr and provided as may be onal government providing as
am Support Office (CPS appropriate to enable M sistance to develop their capac
O) to coordinate subsec unicipal Development F ities in the following areas: co
tor activities at the natio mmunity participation, sub-sec
und (MDF) facility or oth tor planning, program manage
nal level and to assist L er financing sources to ment, regulation of developme
GUs to plan and manag extend loans to LGUs fo nt, selection of technologies, fi
e sanitation/sewerage pr r sanitation and sewera nancial management, construc
tion supervision, O & M, monit
ograms at the communit ge projects. oring and reporting.
y level shall be establish
ed.
Action Plan
NEDA Board Resolution No. 5, Series 0f 1994
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A CPSO shall be crated and housed at LWUA with LWUA shall fully staff the CPSO from wi
the LWUA Board exercising over-all jurisdiction ov thin its existing manpower as soon as p
er its operation. An inter-departmental Advisory C ossible. An international development c
ommittee (IAC) composed of representatives from onsultant shall be engaged to assist the
DPWH, DOH, DILG, DOF, DBM, LWUA, DENR, MW CPSO to design and implement the acti
SS and NEDA shall likewise be created and act as vities. The CPSO shall exist for a period
the coordination body in the implementation and of about 3 to 5 years or until after its fun
monitoring of urban sewerage and sanitation prog ctions have been fully devolved to the L
rams particularly the five (5) pilot areas (Davao Cit GUs.
y, Calamba, Dagupan City, Roxas City and Cotabat
o City). The representatives to the IAC shall prefer
ably be Ass. Sec. or Dir. level. The Chairman of the
IAC and the Dir. of the CPSO shall be appointed by
the LWUA Board.
The Code on
Sanitation of the
Philippines
Presidential Decree No. 856
CHAPTER I CHAPTER VII
General Provisions Industrial Hygiene
CHAPTER IV CHAPTER X
Markets and Abattoirs Camps and Picnic
Grounds
CHAPTER V CHAPTER XI
Public Laundry Dancing Schools, Dance Halls
and Night Clubs
CHAPTER XVII
Sewage Collection and
Disposal and Drainage
CHAPTER XVIII
Refuse Disposal
President Ferdinand E. Marcos
December 23, 1975
Ultimate Goal:
Improvement of the way the Filipinos by directing
public health services towards the protection and
promotion of the health of our people.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 1:
Contains the title of the code, definitions of some
terms, functions of the Department of Health, Au
thority of the secretary, Authority of the Bureau D
GENERAL irectors, Authority of the Regional Directors, Auth
PROVISIONS ority of the Health Officers and other miscellane
ous provisions
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 2:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all public and private water supply system p
roject planned by any government agency or inst
WATER rumentalities including government-owned or co
SUPPLY ntrolled corporations, private organizations, firms
, individuals or other entities.
It includes prescribe standards and procedure, s
tandard construction and operating procedure et
c.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 3:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all food establishments and facilities includi
ng those located in vessels, food containers and
FOOD vehicles, and food sold in the streets.
ESTABLISHMENTS
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 4:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all markets including food terminals, satellit
e markets/talipapa, wet markets,, dry markets, s
MARKETS AND upermarkets, and other similar establishments o
ABATTOIRS perated by government agencies or instrumental
ities including government-owned or controlled c
orporations, private organizations, firms, individu
als or other entities.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 5:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all public laundry including commercial laun
dry such as Laundromat, dry cleaning laundry, li
PUBLIC nen supply laundry, diaper-supply laundry, and p
LAUNDRY ublic laundry places such as a community laundr
y area, as well as institutional establishments wit
h laundry equipment and facilities such as hotel
s, motels massage parlors, dormitories, hospital
s and other health-related institution and other si
milar establishments.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 6:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all public and private schools, secretarian a
nd non-secretarian schools, serminaries or theol
SCHOOL ogical schools, review centers, graduate schools
SANITATION AND , special schools and schools for person with dis
HEALTH SERVICES abilities, foreign schools, technical/vocational sc
hools, special training or trade schools, training
centers, day care or child care centers, nursery
and kindergarten schools and children`s instituti
on.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 7:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all Industrial Establishment.
It includes Environment Provisions, Personal Pr
INDUSTRIAL otective Equipment (PPE) etc.
HYGIENE
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 8:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all public swimming or bathing places includ
ing pools, bathhouses, bathing beaches and oth
PUBLIC er natural bathing areas.
SWIMMING OR
BATHING PLACES
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 9:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all rest areas, bus terminals, bus stops, bu
s stations and service stations and their premise
REST AREAS, BUS s, establishments operating within their premises
TERMINALS, BUS , either privately or publicly, operated, and perso
STOPS AND nnel working there at.
SERVICE STATIONS
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 10:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all camps and picnic grounds intended for p
ublic or commercial use including cottages and r
CAMPS AND PICNIC ecreational places or facilities located therein, op
GROUNDS erated by individuals, organizations, corporation
s, partnerships, government agencies or instrum
entalities or institution.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 11:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all dancing schools/studios, dance halls, dis
cos/discotheques, night/day clubs, bars, cabaret
DANCING SCHOOLS s, folkhouses, karaokes bars, videoke bars, musi
, HALLS AND NIGHT c lounges and other similar establishments, facili
CLUB ties premises, appurtences and their personnel.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 12:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all barber shops, beauty parlor,/salons, cos
metic salons, hair and hairdressing salons, mani
TONSORIAL AND curing and pedicuring establishments, tattooing
BEAUTY and skin piercing shops and similar establishme
ESTABLISHMENTS nts, and figure slenderizing salons that include fi
gure and slimmer salons etc.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 13:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all massage clinics and sauna bath establis
hments, masseur/massagists, massage attenda
MASSAGE CLINICS nts, sauna bath attendants and other similar enti
AND SAUNA BATH ties and practitioners.
ESTABLISHMENTS
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 14:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all hotels, motels, and apartments, lodging,
HOTELS, MOTELS, boarding or tenement houses, and condominium
AND APARTMENTS, s and other similar facilities or establishment.
LODGING,
BOARDING OR
TENEMENT
HOUSES, AND
CONDOMINIUMS
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 15:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all ports and airports operating within the ter
ritory of the Philippines and shall likewise apply t
PORT, AIRPORT, o all vessel and aircraft entering said ports and a
VESSEL AND irports.
AIRCRAFT
SANITATION
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 16:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all urban pest control operators, urba pest c
ontrol applicators, and owners,operators or admi
VERMIN CONTROL nistrators of land, places, buildings, residences,
public places establishments, food establishmen
ts, ports, airports, vessels, aircraft, or any other
means of coveyances, and other similar establis
hments.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 17:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to al public and private sewage and excreta co
llection and disposal system project planned by
SEWAGE COLLECTI any government agency or instrumentality includ
ON AND DISPOSAL, ing government-owned or controlled corporation
EXCRETA DISPOSAL s, private organizations, firms, individuals or oth
AND DRAINAGE er entities.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 18:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all occupants, owners , tenants, lessees of
buildings and dwelling houses, owners or operat
REFUSE DISPOSAL ors of industrial, commercial and business establ
ishments, local government units, other governm
ent agencies or government owned or controlled
corporations, private firms or corporation, institut
ions refuse collectors, disposal area operators, j
unk dealers, scavengers etc.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 19:
Contains the rules and regulations that cover all
establishment or entities and public and private
premises in which are likely to produce nuisance
NUISANCE AND s such as public or private premises maintained
OFFENSIVE and used in a manner injurios to health; Breedin
TRADES AND g places and harborage of vermin; Animals and t
OCCUPATIONS heir carcasses which injurious to health; Accumu
lation of refuse; Noxious matter or wastewater d
ischarged improperly in streets; Animal stockade
maintained in a manner injurious to health etc.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 20:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all establishments, premises and facilities th
at are producing, processing manufacturing, han
POLLUTION OF THE dling, storing, transporting, selling, distributing, u
ENVIRONMENT sing and disposing the following; fertilizerz, heav
y metals, chemical, biological agents and polluta
nts, radioactive materials, food additives, produc
ts emitting ionizing and non-ionizing radiation an
d other products that may cause harm to public
health.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 21:
Contains the rules and regulations that shall app
ly to all crematories, funeral and embalming esta
blishments, medical and research institutions, un
DISPOSAL OF DEAD dertakers, embalmers, public and private burial
PERSONS grounds and other similar institutions operated b
y government agencies or instrumentalities inclu
ding government-owned or controlled corporatio
ns, private organizations, firms, individuals or ot
her entities.
THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUMMARY:
CHAPTER 22:
Contains the Penal Provision, Separability Claus
e, Repealing Clause and Effectivity.
FINAL PROVISIONS
SEWAGE DISPOSAL
AND DRAINAGE IRR
(SANITATION CODE)
To carry out the provisions of
Chapter XVII – “Sewage Collection
and Disposal, Excreta Disposal and
Drainage”,
•DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE:
A log of soil formations and ground water Untreated sewage and effluent of septic tank or ot
levels as determined by test holes dug in close her putrescible or offensive wastes shall not be dis
proximity to any proposed seepage pit or dispo charged onto the surface of the ground or into a
sal field, together with a statement of water abs ny street, road, alley, open excavation, storm wa
orption characteristics of the soil at proposed si ter sewer, land drain ditch, adjoining property, w
te as determined by approved percolation tests. atercourse or body of water.
Location of any toilet or sewage disposal syste Sewage and effluent of a septic tank or other putr
m shall be in accordance with the plans and specifica escible, impure or offensive wastes shall not be dis
tions prescribed by the Department of Health. charged into an abandoned water supply well, s
pring, or cistern or into a natural or artificial well
, sink hole, crevices or other opening extending i
nto limestone, sandstones or other rock or shale
formation.
INDIVIDUAL EXCRETA AND SEWERAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Individual Sewage Disposal System
Individual sewage disposal system utilizing lea No seepage pit or leaching well shall b
ching fields, leaching beds, or leaching wells shall e installed where the percolation rate is le
not be permitted where the depth to normal grou ss than 2.54 cm. (1 in.) fall in water into the
nd water or rock strata is less than 1.20 meters. test holes in 30 minutes.
A leaching system shall not be installed in an No person shall install individual househol
area where the texture, structure and porosity of the d sewage disposal system in a new subdivisi
soil are not suitable as determined by a percolation on, unless site is considered to be impract
test performed by a registered civil/sanitary engi icable and inadvisable to install a public s
neer. ewage collection system with the required
treatment.
No leaching tile field or bed shall be install
ed where percolation rate is less than 2.54 cm. (1
in.) fall in water level in the test holes in 60 minut
es.
INDIVIDUAL EXCRETA AND SEWERAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Individual Sewage Disposal System
•OPERATIONAL PERMIT:
No person shall discharge or permit or c The local health authority at any reasonable t
ause to be discharged the effluent from an ime may inspect the sewage disposal system, sam
individual sewage disposal system or othe ple the effluent, or take any other step which he deem
r putrescible or offensive wastes from his s necessary to ensure compliance with these rules
premises unless an application for an operati and regulations.
onal permit has been approved by the local h
ealth authority.
• LOT DIMENSIONS AND AREAS:
Only a person or dwelling owner who co
mplies with the requirements of these rule Individual sewage disposal systems shall be in
s and regulations shall be entitled to receive stalled on sufficient area and suitable topography
and retain an operational permit. to permit compliance with these rules and regulat
ions.
INDIVIDUAL EXCRETA AND SEWERAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Individual Sewage Disposal System
Any person who shall interfere or hinder, oppose any officer, agent or member of the Departme
nt of Health or of the bureaus and offices under it, provincial, city or municipal health officers, s
anitary engineers and sanitary inspectors in the performance of his duty as provided for under
these rules and regulations, or shall tear down, mutilate, deface or alter any placard, or notice,
affixed to the premises in the enforcement of these rules and regulations shall be guilty of mis
demeanor and punishable upon conviction by imprisonment for a period not exceeding
six (6) months or by a fine not exceeding P 1,000.00 or both depending on the discretion
of the court.
END OF PRESENTATION!!!
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